Printing-machine



(No Model.)

' P. KIRSUH.

PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 405,099. Patented June 11, 1889.

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PRINTING- MACHINE.

SJPEGIIE ICA'1IO1\'|T forming part of Letters IPatent No. 405,099, dated June 11, 1889.

Application filed June 13, 1888- Serial No. 276,914. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, FRANCIS KIRSCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing- Machines; andI do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention is intended for the use of merchants and others who use printed wrapping-paper. It is made as a complete article of store-furniture or is adapted to be hung beneath a counter or table, and will automatically print continuous paper from the roll or folded package.

The accompanying drawings set forth the invention, reference being made thereto by letters, similar letters denoting corresponding parts in the different views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention when adjusted to use folded paper. Fig. 2 is an end elevation showing the machine adjusted to use paper from a roll. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of part of ink-reservoir.

The letter A indicates the frame of the machine. If intended to stand, the base A is provided. Secured upon the frame is the cover or top piece a, which is furnished at each corner with screws M, adapted to pass up through the said top piece and into the counter, to which it is hung.

Along the front edge of the top a is a knife G, having one edge projecting slightly below the top a, and another edge 9 formed at one end of the knife on a part of the same bent upward at a right angle. The extreme point g of this part is blunt, and is bent over for the protection of the blade and of the operator.

To the under side of the top a, just back of the blade G and parallel to it, I attach the curved projection L. Back of this projection and close under the top a are j ournaled in the frame A three rollers. The first roller B is cushioned and is a carrier-roller. The second roller 0 bears the form or die for printing, and the third D is the inking-roller. Under the back edge of the top a is the ink-reservoir M, of triangular form and filled with cotton saturated with ink. Its lower edge has the perforations n or, through which the cotton comes into contact with the roller D.

Two shoulders K K are formed on the inside of the vertical parts of the frame A at a suitable distance below the rollers just described, and the eyes h h are provided on the front edges of the. same. His a shelf having the pins h h, adapted to work loosely in the eyes h h, the shelf, when in a horizontal position, being supported by the shoulders K K. On this shelf H the folded paper F is placed. NVhen not used, the shelf H may be turned up to the position indicated by the dotted line. Below this shelf the roller E, bearing the paper 6, is j ournaled in the frame A. The roller E should be placed far enough below the shelf H so that the latter will not be in contact with the paper 6, and should be adjusted so that the paper will feed upward from the front side of the roller.-

0 is a twine-box attached to the end of the top a, adjacent to the blade g, which serves as a twine-cutter.

The machine is operated by passing the pa per from the package F or the rollerE up be tween the rollers O and D and forward over the carrier-roller D. The projection or guide L will give the paper a downward deflection,

so that it is easily grasped by the hand. As

the paper e is drawn through, the rollers are made to revolve. The die on the roller 0, being inked by the roller 13, prints the desired impression on the paper. By drawing the paper upward against the knife Git is torn or cut off in desired lengths.

The paper is used for wrapping packages on the top a. The package is tied with twine from the box 0, which is cut on the knife g, as described above.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. An automatic printer consisting of a frame having inwardly-projecting shoulders to support in operative position a shelf hinged to said frame, apaper-roller journaled in the frame beneath the said shelf, a cushioned roller, a die-roller, and an inking-roller journaled in the frame above the shelf, a top piece having vertical corner screws, secured to the IOC frame above the rollers, and having on its front edge a horizontal blade, and on its under side a guide near its front edge and an ink-reservoir near its back edge, arranged substantially as herein set forth.

2. In an automatic printer having a frame and a top provided with vertical corner screws, the combination of the ink-reservoir, the rollers B, 1, and D, and the guide L, with reference to the shelf II and paper-roller E, attached to said frame, substantially as herein described.

A combined automatic printer and table formed of a vertical frame having a supporting-base, two inwardly-projecting shoulders, a top piece covering said frame, provided with vertical corner screws, a knife along the front edge of said top, having a lower cutting-edge and a short upright blade covered by a blunted protector, a horizontal guide beneath the top, back of and parallel to the said knife, an ink-reservoir, a cushioned roller, a die-roller, and an inking-roller jonrnaled in the frame beneath the said top piece, ahinged shelf beneath the said rollers, and a paperroller journaled in the frame beneath the shelf, substantially as herein described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS KIRSOH.

\Vitnesses:

JNo. H. DEWEY, FRED. E. Wnonr. 

